Seaford Stamp & Post Card Club

It’s great to be getting back to ‘normal’! For the first time since the Autumn we were able to hold our monthly meeting at the Constitutional Club, all socially distanced with masks and good ventilation of course, but masks were optional whilst we were sitting down. Most of our membership turned up and we had a very enjoyable evening. We started by ratifying official business at an ‘Extraordinary AGM.’ and then the members presented items on the theme of ‘J, K, & L’. You never know what is going to turn up, which is part of the fun of these evenings.

The range of topics was very broad and included a 1908 Japanese letter sheet posted on board a French Paquebot ship, Klaipeda, plus items on Central Lithuania, Chinese Junk ships, The Statue of Liberty, postcards of Kingsmead School and a few letters written by Tufton Beamish (Lewes MP) when he was a student there, GVI stamps of Kenya, Jugoslavia (now Yugoslavia), Katakana, Luxembourg, Jolly Jack Tar (ephemera, stamps postal history and postcards of New Zealand shipping), King & Country Killing Zones (mainly ephemera, stamps and postal history from Egypt and the South African Boer War) and finally ‘Job 9’ which was the code name at the start of WW2 for Tristan da

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The next three meetings will be: 14th July ‘One Hundred Years of Aviation’, 11th August ‘Allied Occupation of Germany part 2’, 8th Sep ‘Members M, N & O’. You are welcome to come along to one of these meetings which are help from 7pm at the Constitutional Club. If you would like to find out more about the club visit our website at Seaford Stamp and Postcard Club: http://www.seaford-sussex.co.uk/sspc/ or our club secretary David by email: david.manthorpe10@gmail. com, tel: 01323 492433.

Photos from top: Leaders in the Boer War; The First group of Nurses sent to the Boer War; Picture inside Japanese Letter Sheet; Kingsmead School.

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